The Delta independent., 1887-05-31
TELEGRAPH BREVrTIES.

The smallpox is raging in Santiago
de Cuba
Forest fires in Michigan have caused
losses amounting to 5000, 900.
The General Assembly of the Presby-
terian Church is in session at Omaha.
Natural gas has been struck at
Girari, Kansas, at depth Of sixty feet.
A statue of General James R. Steed-
man was unveiled in Toledo, Ohio, a few
days ago.
The damage to timber IN the Upper
Michigan Peninsula by fires is estimated at
"a, ,OOO,OO
1t is reported that the widow of the
late Alexander Mitchell. of Milwaukee. will
contest his will.
Disastrous fires in street-car stables
occurred in both New York and Cincinnati
Thursday night.
Colonel Fred Grant has been nomi-
mated for Quarantine Commissioner by Gov
ernor Hill of New York.
Grant Memorial University, at Athens,
Tennessee, has conferred the degree of LII
d. on George W. Childs.
The President has started for the
Adirondacks. accompanied by his wife and
Colonel and Mrs. Lamont.
The Gar shortened his stay in the
Don Cossack country because fan attempt
made by a student to kill him.
The village of Hawthorne. in North
ern Wisconsin was entirely destroyed by
FIRE from the burning timber.
The President has accepted an invi-
tation to visit St. Louis during the Grand
Army encampment in September.
A tornado struck Idama, Kansas.
and demolished nearly dozen buildings.
One person was seriously injured.
Five men are held at Austin. Texas.
on the charge OF being portion of the party
that recently robbed the express train.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland
and Colonel Lamont and wife have gone to
the Adirondacks on fishing excursion.
In fight with bandits near the Rio
Grande the Mexican Customs officials man.
aged to kill one out Of seven Of the party.
Governor Ross of New Mexico has
again respited Thomasson for thirty days
He was TO hang at Socorro on Friday next
Eleven hundred Chinese are in quar-
antine on the steamer Gaelic at San Fran
cisco with two small .pox cases among them.
The Dublin Express charges Mr.. Par
nell with cruelty to Il tenant on his Avon
dale estate and says he has refused to re-
duce his rent
The Governor of New Mexico has
issued quarantine proclamation as safe
guard against pieuro-pneumonia. 1; goes
into effect June /.
On account of the prevalence OF pleu-
ro-pneumonia in Scotland importations of
cattle from that country into the United
States have been prohibited.
i, is reported that the Atchison. To-
pcka n Santa Fe road has purchased the
st. Louis II Chicago railroad running from
Spring field, H.. to St Louis.
King Humbert, the Queen and many
leading Italian statesmen are said TO be in
favor OF a reconciliation between the Nati-
can and the Italian Government.
A disagreement between the Knights
Of Labor and the shoe manufacturers at
Haverhill, Massachusetts, has closed forty
factories and 5000 men are idle.
Two men were killed instantly and n
third man was badly injured by the explo-
sion of saw-mill boiler In Canon Largo,
thirty miles east of Albuquerque.
Although the foreign growth has
been removed from the throat of the Crown
Prince of Germany his physicians now say
that he remains liable to relapse.
A majority of the creditors of Swan
Brothers at Cheyenne agreed to allow that
firm an extension OF one, two and three
years. The consent Of all Is necessary.
The wholesale grocers of st. Louis
assert that the Missouri Pacific road is not
dealing justly In its rates. and they will
complain to the Interstate Commission.
A the sale q the French crown jewels
Tiffany & CO., OF New York. secured three
OF the famous Mazarin diamonds for 4as, :.
600 francs. The sale has realized 6, ,S64, ,0oO
francs.
It is reported that the Sultan has dis
missed number Of officials holding high